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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

How to install Conky Manager in Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, and their derivatives ( Updated: September 23, 2015 )

Today, we are showing how to install Conky Manager on

Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch Linux.

Updated: on September 23, 2015

Before we started, what is Conky?

Conky is a free software system monitor for the X Window System, but it consumes much less system resources than others system monitors .

This application is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces, battery power, system messages, e-mail inboxes, many popular music players, weather updates, breaking news, and much more.

So, Conky Manager is a graphical front-end for managing Conky config files. It provides options to start/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system. Packages are currently available for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives

This video tutorial, is a way to help you accomplish the installation of this application.

Depending in yours processor architecture, and to get a successful installation just pressCtrl+Alt+Ton keyboard ( this will open the system terminal ), follow the steps below to download and install them.

Ubuntu based systems

For 32-bit and 64-bit copy and paste on the terminal, and run commands below one by one.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install conky-manager

Debian based systems

For 32-bit copy and paste on the terminal, and run commands below one by one.